Boot or shoe heel.



No- 830,458. 7 PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

' J. B. 'SHEEHAN.

BOOT 0R SHOE HEEL. uruonmn rum) snrw. 21, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN B. SHEEHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOOT on SHOE HEEL.

Application filed September Specification of Letters Patent.

21,1905. Serial No. 279,424.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

. To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN B. SHEEHAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot or Shoe Heels, ofwhich the following is a description, reference being had totheaccompanying drawings and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to heels for boots and shoes, and has for itsprincipal object to provide an improved form of resilient noise lessheel which may be manufactured at small cost and applied to either newor old shoes or other footwear or as an attachment to rubber heels.

A further object of the invention is to provide a heel that ispractically indestructible, all of the weight and shock being taken upbefore the leather or other material exposed to wear comes into contactwith the ground.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a heel in whichthe members making active contact with the ground may be placed at thepoint where the direct force is im posed.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a duplex resilientmember, the impact being first taken up by a metal spring which whencompressed to its fullest extent will transfer the weight to a backingmember formed of rubber or like material.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, illustratedin the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in theappended claims, it being understood that changes in the form andproportions of parts may be made without departing from the in vention.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a heelconstructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a detailperspective view of the heel inverted. Fig. 3 is a similar view of themetallic spring member detached and partly broken away to more clearlyillustrate the construction.

Similar numerals of reference areemployed to indicate correspondingparts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The heel 1 may be built up of several layers of leather or othermaterial, one of the uppermost layers 2 being cut away to form a re cessfor the reception of a rather thick sheet or disk 3, formed of rubber orsimilar material. The next lowermost layer 4 is also cut away to form arecess of somewhat smaller I area, so that the edges of the disk ofrubber will be firmly held in place.

The principal spring 6 is formed of a strip of spring-steel or othersuitable metal folded at the center to form two leaves having aninherent spreading tendency, this action being assisted by one or moresprings 7, that preferably are helical in form. The expanding limit isfixed-by the vertical height of the recess.

Projecting from the lower side of the spring are a number of pins orprongs 9, that are guided in suitable openings formed in the lowerlayers of the heel. These pins in some cases may be pointed. to preventslipping. These pins project below the bottom of the heel proper and maybe arranged at any suitable point near the rear of the heel, either atthe center or to one side thereof, in accordance with the habits of thewearer.

In use, the weight of the wearer will be gradually taken up by themetallic springs, the pins receding within the heel, and thenthe weightis transferred to the yieldable rubber disk, so that the weight andshock will be wholly absorbed by the time the heel proper comes intocontact with the ground.

' A heel made in accordance with this invention possesses all of theadvantages of an ordinary rubber heel, but is more resilient andserviceable and eliminates the objectionable sneakiness common to suchheels.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A heel having arecess, and a spring arranged therein and providedwith pins that pro ect below the bottom of the heel.

2. A heel havin a recess, a metallic spring seated therein, anc aplurality of ins projecting from the spring to a point be ow the bottomof the heel, the pins being guided in openings in said heel.

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3. A heel having a recess, and a folded tact with the ground.

5. A heel having a recess, a rubber disk or 5 cushion therein,

disk, and pins p a metal s ring under the rejecting from said spring andadapted for contact with the ground.

6. A heel having a recess, a disk of rubber confined therein,

a folded metal strip ar- 10 ranged below the diskipins projecting fromthe lower leafof the strip and adapted for contact with the ground, andcoiled springs arranged between the leaves of the strip.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. SHEEHAN.

Witnesses:

J. V. S. MOKEE, A. W. SHIvrrz.

